[southerntofu]

Ten years ago was 2012. C++11 came out in 2011. Do you believe a big codebase like Chrome would be converted to C++11 less than one year after the spec was published? I find that unlikely but i never worked on such a big codebase so i wouldn't know.

[CJefferson]

The STL was mostly standardised in C++98, 1998. There were additions in C++03 and C++11, but nothing like removing this type of overload.

Long running systems were still using pre-standardisation libraries for string up to 2012 however, so you may well have come across such projects.

[tialaramex]

> nothing like removing this type of overload.

Bzzt. C++ 11 completely overhauls how std::string is defined.

[imron]

> C++11 came out in 2011

C++0x was a thing, with varying levels of support from all major compilers, for years before C++11 was finally ratified.

In the context of my original comment though, no matter how dated the code base, I think it unlikely that Chrome was using any variant of std::string that had an implicit conversion operator for const char* such that string could be passed as a parameter to a function taking const char* without needing to call c_str().